I was supposed to see it twice in the last week.... but we never ended up going. >_

I saw it on Tuesday, fantastic!
The story is great and the visuals are pretty stunning. Definitely worth all the costs I think.

Yeah a really good movie.

was awesome, I almost cried at some moments

Like what? That tech and power hungryness is bad and you mustn't exploit nature and the indegenous cultures?

Or was it a comment about the artificial versus the natural?

Well, they made the Army/Navy seem like bad people, and with family in the military, I found it offensive. The story itself also had major similarities with the Iraq war from the media perspective, like going for precious resources, exploiting a group of people, pretending to be helping when you are destroying, ect.

I don't mean to start an off-topic debate, but that was how I viewed the plot, and why I found it dumb.

just crossed $350 million in the states and $670 foreign sales for slightly over 1 billion in sales, its now $136 million from the 2nd all time world box office in sales.

Can people not be so idealistic and just enjoy the movie?

They made this certain group of the army/navy look like bad people, but the main protagonist is a former marine and he's one of the kindest people in the whole movie. Who cares if you have family in the military? Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, and I have a cousin serving in Afghanistan. Did I get offended? No. I don't really give a crap. Stop kissing the military's butt. And it more closely resembled the Spanish colonization of the Americas rather than the American invasion of Iraq. If you really found the entire plot dumb because you were offended by it, then that's dumb.

Don't mind me, I'm kind of grumpy today. I'm just really pissed off that so many people try to make so many comparisons with this movie and real life. Just enjoy it.

Visually it was one of the most impressive films I've seen and I can only think of a few others that can match up to it. Cameron succeeded in creating a beautiful, believable alien world and the 3-D was fantastic (in fact I don't think I could watch the film again unless it was in 3-D). In my opinion it's a must see film at the cinema (definately in 3-D).

The film wasn't perfect though, as others have said in this and other Avatar threads, the story was lacking some inovation. There was nothing really new but more disappointingly it was entirely predictable. That doesn't take too much away from the film though as everything which was done was done well. The acting was solid, the story held your attention and Cameron created characters which, although cliched, you actually cared about (take note Mr Bay). Also it is probably a little naive to think that he could really have done anything more complex with the story/characters as the film cost so much money to make it had to be accessible to as wide an audience as possible.

WOW....that's 12 hours of cinema in the cinema.